This is an analysis of the poem To - - that begins with:

AH, often do I wait and watch,
And look up, straining through the Real... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef egeg chch icic hjhX hkhkXjhjh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 11011111 11110101 01011101 11001101 11110101 11011101 11010011 11010101 11010101 11011101 11110101 11011001 11110101 11110101 11011111 11111111 11011101 01011101 10010101 011100101 11010101 11111111 11110101 11110101 11000101 11010101 01111101 01010100 110101001 11110101 01110101 11010101 11011111 01110101 11000101 11011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, she are repeated.

    The author used the same words i, how, or at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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